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INTRODUCTION TO GRIDtoday

THE COMPUTER PARADOX AND GRID COMPUTING

RESEARCHERS ACHIEVE PRODUCTION GRID BREAKTHROUGH

Special Features

THE COMPUTER PARADOX AND GRID COMPUTING
by Ahmar Abbas, Managing Director, Grid Computing Partners

Ahmar Abbas, talks about the paradox of having slow US productivity growth in technology along with the proliferation of desktop and other computing resources in US companies and homes.

DESPITE CONFUSION, INFINIBAND STILL HAS A BRIGHT FUTURE
by Mike Bernhardt

When Intel announced it was discontinuing development of its InfiniBand Host Channel Adapters, heads turned and the future of InfiniBand was questioned by a number of editors.

RESEARCHERS ACHIEVE PRODUCTION GRID BREAKTHROUGH

Physics researchers have carried out the first production-quality simulated data generation on a data Grid.

AN INTERVIEW WITH SUN'S WOLFGANG GENTZSCH
by Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief

Sun's Wolfgang Gentzsch talked with GRIDtoday about his company and its relationship to Grid Technology.

INTRODUCTION TO GRIDtoday
by John Hurley, Editor-at-Large

GRIDtoday's Editor-at-Large offers an overview of where Grid computing has come from -- and where it is heading through the opening years of a new century.

WHO NEEDS SUPERCOMPUTERS?
by Darnell Little in Chicago and Ira Sager

Grid software lets companies tap other machines in their network for extra computing muscle.

Systems/Enterprise

IBM NAMES FIVE FELLOWS, COMPANY'S HIGHEST TECHNICAL HONOR

IBM bestowed its most prestigious technical honor on five of its top scientists, researchers and developers, naming them IBM Fellows in recognition of their continued innovation and outstanding contributions to the information technology industry.

HP, IDC AND PLATFORM COMPUTING HOST GRID SEMINARS

Senior executives from HP, Platform Computing and industry analyst firm International Data Corporation (IDC) will host executive Grid Computing seminars in London, New York City and San Francisco.

IBM RECRUITS STUDENTS FOR GRID COMPUTING EFFORT
by Ed Scannell, InfoWorld.com

IBM will go with a youth movement as one way to accelerate its grid computing initiatives as the company kicks off its Extreme Blue summer intern program.

NPACI ROCKS SIMPLIFIES DEPLOYMENT OF INTEL CLUSTERS

Developers from the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego, have released NPACI Rocks 2.2.1, which extends the easy-to-use open-source cluster toolkit to Linux clusters powered by Intel Itanium processors.

SUN SAYS BUSINESS "GETS" GRID COMPUTING

Sun Microsystems has announced version 5.3 of its gridware, which aims to keep track of computing grids and focus their power for more commercial and mainstream companies and organizations.

Scientific Applications

AVAKI'S GRID ARCHITECTURE IDENTIFIES BIOLOGICAL DATA

At the BIO 2002 Conference in Toronto, Avaki Corporation, a pioneer in global grid software solutions, announced it has co-authored a proposed standard for identifying biologically significant data in life sciences applications.

4SC DECIDES TO USE IBM LINUX CLUSTER TECHNOLOGY

The biotechnology company 4SC AG has decided to use IBM Linux Cluster technology for drug discovery under a collaboration.

NEW SUPERNOVA MODELS TAKE ON THIRD DIMENSION

Astrophysicists from Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, have created the first 3-D computer simulations of the spectacular explosion that marks the death of a massive star.

Breaking News

Security

Intersil Announces Security Solution For Wireless LAN
White House Officials Headline National Cybersecurity Tour

Platforms

RackSaver Leaps Forward In Supercomputing Technology

Networking

The Cheap Way to Broadband
Novell to Buy SilverStream for $212 Million
OMG Model Driven Architecture Named Technology Trend
Purdue, IU Create New 'Tera-Scale' Supercomputer Grid
TriCN Introduces QDR SRAM Solution

Storage

CardioNow Selects A S2A 6000 Silicon Storage Appliance

Operating Systems & Middleware

Platform Ships Management Solution for Grid Computing
Platform Enhances Powerful Grid Computing Solutions
Sun Delivers Next Level of Sun's Open Grid Architecture

General

Platform Computing Makes Equity Investment in Powerllel
Sun Tops IDC Supercomputer Rankings in Enterprise Category
International Supercomputer Conference Announcement

Quote Of The Week

"We expect Grids to become a significant architecture going forward, particularly within corporations looking to bridge complex organizational boundaries, and manage escalating IT costs, while improving productivity and collaboration." -- Debra Goldfarb, Group vice president, Worldwide Systems and Servers, IDC

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